The Met says the scheme, known as Project Alpha, helps fight serious violence, with the intelligence gathered identifying offenders and securing the removal of videos glorifying stabbings and shootings from platforms such as YouTube.
The unit, comprising more than 30 staff and launched in 2019 with Home Office funding, scours social media sites looking at drill music videos and other content.
Who could possibly object to th...
Oh. Of course.
Stafford Scott, a veteran community campaigner, said he feared the project was part of a continued assault on young black people.Only the ones that want to shoot or stab their fellow black people, Stafford. Are you in favour of that, then?
“Young people use social media to magnify their lived experience. It is a tool for projection, you can’t rely on it for detection,” he said. “It is racially motivated, racially driven and involves racial stereotypes.”Ever wonder why there's no unit set up to monitor young people of other origins? Why there's no Portugese, Spanish or Samoan drill videos?
Julia, it's been said many times but it's no less true, if you don't want to be the focus of attention of the law, don't commit crimes.
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